“Walter Neff was nursing a drink at Al’s Bar on the corner of Sixth and Limestone. He intended to do more than nurse it. He was going to get stinking drunk.”

Thus starts award-winning mystery writer Abigail Keam’s newest Josiah Reynolds mystery. Death by Chocolate just came out in December. Among her many noteworthy accomplishments, Keam is a 16-time award-winning beekeeper, which explains why Death by a Honeybee (her first Josiah Reynolds novel) won Gold Medal in the 2010 Reader’s Favorite.

Alongside Keam, Katerina will be talking with freelance journalist Doug Tattershall. After a lengthy stint for Danville’s Advocate-Messenger, Tattershall worked for the University of Kentucky. He currently resides as the Media Relations Coordinator for the Lexington Public Library and organizes community events, such as the largest city-oriented group on GoodReads.

Tattershall’s new book, American Magdalene (Wind Publications 2014), covers Lexington madam Belle Brezing, who went from a rough life on the streets to leading what Time Magazine called the “most orderly of disorderly houses”, eventually inspiring the character of Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind.

With references to Al’s Bar all the way to Lexington brothels, today’s show will be full of Lexington love, so be sure to tune in on WRFL 88.1FM at 2PM (or stream it on the web).

Previously on Accents Radio:

• 02/21/14: novelist Angela Jackson-Brown (download)
• 02/14/14: Affrilachian poet Jude McPherson (download)
• 02/07/14: novelists Denise Giardina & Kim Edwards (download)
• 01/31/14: writer Mary Popham (download)
• 01/24/14: poet Colin Watkins (download)
• 01/17/14: poet John James (download)